He was said to resemble the well-known portrait of the Marquis of Monterey in the mission church, a face that was alleged to leave a deep and lasting impression upon the observers.
The dejected looks of the father, and the deep mourning worn by the children, brought tears to her eyes.
The silence that generally pervades the company at the commencement of dinner enabled Mary to recover herself and look round for the home faces.
A few words only on the morning she left, while dressing for her journey, gave the loving mother hope.
Indeed, indeed I will," she replied in a tone of sympathy; the paleness and the shudder had not escaped her.
And be miserable for life in spite of the money," said her aunt, with a shrug of the shoulders expressive of pity.
I beg your pardon, uncle, I did not hear your approach.
He's waiting for you, and meanwhile He keeps your portrait and sings odes to it.
That prim little picture below her portrait shows the house when it was new.
Mr. Stirling and his nephew were standing in the long picture gallery of Hulver, looking at the portrait of Roger Manvers of Dunwich, who inherited Hulver in Charles the Second's time.
There is a charming portrait of Henriette of many curls in the gallery which certainly has a look of the Stuarts, hanging opposite her ill-fated Richard, who soon after the marriage got himself blown up with Lord Sandwich in the Royal James.
Then with the door of his stateroom shut, he would sit down on the couch under the portrait to read a chapter out of a thick pocket Bible--her Bible.
A thick roll of charts in a sheath of sailcloth leaned in a corner; the flat packing-case containing the portrait in oils and the three carbon photographs had been pushed under the bed.
Captain Whalley was methodically winding up the chronometers, dusting the portrait of his late wife, getting a clean white shirt out of the drawers, making himself ready in his punctilious unhurried manner to go ashore.
A portrait of this Richard Drake, painted by Zucchero, was shewn in London at the Tudor Exhibition of 1890.
About her mouth and nostrils was that same subdued nervousness, that same restrained feverishness which gives to the portrait its striking qualities.
Elsie thought again of her portrait at home, in which she had transformed her guardian--and here he was in the flesh--transformed according to her portrait.
On the easel stood an almost finished portrait in pastel, executed from a photograph.
It was a life-size portrait of himself painted in oil.
As the King left I pointed to the portrait of himself he had given me, which was hanging on the wall.
The Emperor had sent in the morning a life-sized crayon portrait of himself by Lenbach as a present.
On opening it I found the Queen's portrait on one side and the Princess Thyra's on the other.
The Empress had copied an old family portrait at San Souci.
Mr. Locke has added another humorous portrait to his already large gallery of fantastic creations.
Margaret looked, and, sure enough, some malicious hand had cut her portrait into five pieces.
It was the portrait he had made of her when they were young together, and little thought to part so soon.
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, the Tennessee Patriot, 1862.
A poetic portrait in fiction, with psychological values, of a big cowman and his wife.
The infant was slung on the back, and suckled over the shoulder: a draftsman, in the company of Cook, drew the portrait of a young female, so burdened.
She did not in her secret mind think the portrait quite the thing, and as soon as the drawer departed it was removed from the frame to make way for a calendar.
That, I daresay, was why he painted for her a little portrait of Jamie.
I shall soon begin a portrait of myself and will try and send that to you.
There is an old lady waiting your return to have her portrait painted.
I preserve, as a gratifying memorial, the letter of condolence and sympathy sent in to me at the time by the General, and in which he speaks in flattering terms of the promise of the portrait as a likeness.
My desire is to present a true portrait of the man, with the shadows as well as the lights duly emphasized, fully realizing that what may appear faults to some, to others will shine out as virtues, and vice versa.
I am doing pretty well in this place, better than I expected; I have one more portrait to do before I leave it.
This portrait of President Monroe was completed later on and still hangs in the City Hall of Charleston.
He painted the portrait of the Patroon, confident that, by its exhibition, he would secure other orders.
I have been officially notified of my appointment to paint the full-length portrait of Lafayette for the City of New York, so that you may make it as public as you please.
Smith's portrait for them when I come to New Haven.
Mr. DeForest desires to have his portrait taken such as it would have been six or eight years ago, making the necessary calculation for it, and at the same time making it a good likeness in all other respects.
His object in going to Washington was to paint the portrait of the President, and of this he says in a letter: "I began on Monday to paint the President and have almost completed the head.
Well," said Mr. West, "the King was sitting to me for that portrait when the box containing the American Declaration of Independence was handed to him.
Not a flower, no gilding, but in a frame of black was contained a portrait of a man, before which the lady now knelt down, with dry eyes, but a sad heart.
All we have now to sketch is the portrait of a man of an ordinary stamp; and yet, more than one biographer would have found in Henri du Bouchage, at twenty years of age, the materials for a great man.
CURLE But for the best expression of the bewilderment of life we have to turn to the portrait of a man, to the famous Bazarov of "Fathers and Children.
Over a sofa in the centre of one wall hung a portrait of a faded light-haired man--and it seemed to look with displeasure at the visitors.
You have a portrait of Suvorov hanging in the drawing-room.
One picture of his, with the portrait of the donor, Matteo Palmieri, below, had the credit or discredit of attracting some shadow of ecclesiastical censure.
She inquired as to the progress of the portrait and Elsa in a half careless, yet melancholy tone told her all and even expressed pity for the poor artist.
Fame bespoke her the fairest of the fair, but it never entered his imaginings that he, a humble portrait painter, could think of the daughter of such an illustrious line but as one of a different order of beings from himself.
In this room," she continued, "I would have the portrait painted, and as a setting can you not paint a portion of the room itself?
Think you the daughter of an historic line that stretches back to Hengist could throw herself away on a poor portrait painter, the son of an ignorant peasant?
The picture over the fire-place," says Rosa, "is the portrait of the present Lady Dedlock.
Among those who were contemplating the portrait was a lady--the loveliest, I think, I ever saw.
Having forsaken Napoleon in 1814, and opposed the revolution of July, his name was erased from the list of Marshals by Louis Philippe's Government, and a black vail drawn over his portrait in the Hall of the Marshals at the Tuileries.
I was anxious that the public should share my gratification, and had the portrait sent to the Exhibition, where it appeared on the Catalogue as the "Portrait of a Gentleman.
A short time past Paris was inundated with a ludicrous counterfeit portrait of the President's features, which were fashioned into a crockery tobacco-pot.
Illustration] I am the original of the "Portrait of a Gentleman," in the Exhibition of last year.
A fine portrait of the veteran pioneer, Daniel Boone, embellishes the History of Kentucky.
A forged letter was written, purporting to come from King James the First of England, requesting Mademoiselle de Gournay to send him her portrait and her life.
But a portrait over the chimney-piece, painted by the fashionable artist of the day, acts upon him like a charm.
I obeyed unwillingly enough, expecting, from mademoiselle's expression, to see a commonplaceportrait of some unfortunate admirer whom she had treated with unmerited severity in the days of her youth.
Your portrait will be engraved, Mr. Kerby, and your name shall be inscribed under the print.
Fortunately for me, the Town Council approved of the portrait when it was done.
The portrait was intended as a testimonial "expressive (to use the language of the circular forwarded to me at the time) of the eminent services of Mr. Boxsious in promoting and securing the prosperity of the town.
I succeeded with my portrait of Mademoiselle Clairfait, and I heard the story which occupies the following pages.
The portrait was only wanted in chalk, and would not take long; besides, I might finish it in the evening, if my other engagements pressed hard upon me in the daytime.
He has written a book on the principle of life, which nobody but himself will ever read; but which he is determined to publish, with his own portrait for frontispiece.
I may perhaps be allowed to add in this place, that I have not yet seen or heard of my portrait in an engraved state.
It was the eldest of Mr. Lanfray's daughters, who was on the point of leaving the house to accompany her husband to India; and it was for her that the portrait had been ordered as a home remembrance of her best and dearest friend.
Poor as I was, I felt that I could have painted his portraitfor nothing.
Captain Watson was himself a skilful draughtsman, and his brother George Watson, afterwards president of the Scottish Academy, stood high as a portrait painter, second only to Sir Henry Raeburn, who also was a friend of the family.
He bequeathed to his native town the greater part of his fortune and all his collections, now exhibited in the Musee, together with a very fine portrait of the donor painted by Ingres in 1811.
The portrait is drawn with such skill that the count, in spite of his biographer's candour, imposes by his grand air on the reader much as he appears to have done on his contemporaries.
His contemporary popularity is indicated by the number of inns and public-houses which took his name and had his portrait as sign-board.
One of the earliest of his famous sitters was Sir Walter Scott, who sat for a first portrait in 1820.
In the Cappella Ammannati, facing a gate of the Campo Santo, he painted also an "Adoration of the Magi," wherein appears a portrait of himself.
It was the portraitof a sweet-looking girl with a sunny countenance.
Altogether, face and portrait were positively charming; one of those faces you must love at first sight, without waiting to question whether or not they are beautiful.
He drew his wife into an adjoining room, the one where the portrait of George Elster looked down on its guests.
The uncalled-for retort, the strangely intemperate tones, the quick passionate fling of the hand towards the portrait astonished young Carteret not a little.
